Taking on de Maupassant

20 years in the making, Stéphane Brizé presents his tale of innocence lost

BY ROSLYN SULCASOPINION

After more than a decade of filmmaking that won critical plaudits but little broad recognition, the French film director Stéphane Brizé shot into the public eye last year with ‘‘La loi du marché’’ (The Measure of a Man), which won the best actor award...